Mediator Roles of Social Support and Hope in the Relationship Between Body Image Distress and Resilience in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Treatment: A Modeling Analysis.

Breast cancer and its treatment are particularly distressing for patients because of their potential impacts on body image. The most difficult phase of cancer treatment is usually the first year after a diagnosis. Cancer patients with strong resilience have the positive attitude, internal strength and external resources needed to cope with the disease and its treatment.

Emotional distress and quality of life during folinic acid, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin in colorectal cancer patients with and without chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: A cross-sectional study.

When the 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin (FOLFOX) chemotherapy regimen is used to treat colorectal cancer (CRC), chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) caused by oxaliplatin can substantially affect quality of life (QOL) in the CRC patients. This study compared emotional distress and QOL during FOLFOX in CRC patients with and without CIPN symptoms.This cross-sectional, descriptive, and comparative study recruited 68 CRC patients receiving FOLFOX at a local teaching hospital and at a medical center in southern Taiwan.

Symptom Cluster Trajectories During Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer Outpatients.

Context: Breast cancer patients often experience multiple symptoms and substantial discomfort. Some symptoms may occur simultaneously and throughout the duration of chemotherapy treatment.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate symptom severity and symptom cluster trajectories during chemotherapy in outpatients with breast cancer in Taiwan.

Prophylactic Treatment with Adlay Bran Extract Reduces the Risk of Severe Acute Radiation Dermatitis: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Study.

Acute radiation dermatitis is a frequent adverse effect in patients with breast cancer undergoing radiotherapy, but there are only a small number of studies providing evidence-based interventions for this clinical condition. Adlay is a cereal crop that has been previously shown to have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. In this study, we seek to evaluate the effectiveness of oral prophylactic treatment with adlay bran extract in reducing the risk of severe acute radiation dermatitis.

Breast cancer quality of care in Taiwan in relation to hospital volume: a population-based cohort study.

Aim: To evaluate, compare and improve quality of care for patients with breast cancer at the institution and population level requires a standard set of core measures. We performed a population-based cohort study to examine the association between hospital volume and breast cancer core measures compliance in Taiwan.

Methods: Data were obtained from the Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan.

Exercise behaviors in breast cancer survivors in Taiwan.

Background: Although exercise is a recommended rehabilitation intervention for many breast cancer survivors, exercise activity after cancer treatment is rarely reported in this patient group in Taiwan.

Objective: The objectives of this study were to analyze trends in exercise activity in breast cancer survivors in Taiwan.

Interventions/methods: This prospective, longitudinal study with repeated-measures design used standardized instruments to measure trends in exercise activity but performed no treatments or interventions.

Quality of life, depression, and stress in breast cancer women outpatients receiving active therapy in Taiwan.

The aims of the present study were to compare the quality of life (QoL), depression and stress between patients with malignant breast cancer and those with benign breast tumors. The present study also examined the factors related to QoL among the patients who were receiving active treatment for breast cancer. Among the 97 patients participating in the study, 73 patients were diagnosed as having malignant breast cancer (malignant group) and 24 as having benign tumors (benign group).